A federal decide in New York denied a movement by Donald Trump’s legal professionals to declare a mistrial within the civil battery and defamation lawsuit filed in opposition to the previous president by recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll.
The denial was made on Monday shortly after Trump’s legal professional, Joe Tacopina, submitted an 18-page letter accusing U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan of creating “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings.”
Kaplan didn't make any remark explaining his determination earlier than permitting testimony to renew that morning, the New York Submit reported.
Tacopina had requested that both a mistrial be declared or that the courtroom “appropriate the report” for each occasion that proof was “mischaracterized” to the New York jury. He additionally requested higher alternative to cross-examine Carroll and her witnesses.
“Right here, regardless of the actual fact trial testimony has been underway for less than two days, the proceedings are already replete with quite a few examples of Defendant’s unfair remedy by the Court docket, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury,” the letter learn.
In his letter, Tacopina accused Kaplan of getting “bolstered” Carroll’s testimony and argued that a few of the criticized cross-examination strategies utilized by Trump’s crew, which the decide known as “argumentative,” are “well-established and accepted.”
Tacopina has been admonished by the decide a number of occasions throughout his questioning, as The New York Occasions beforehand reported.
Carroll sued Trump, accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room within the mid-Nineties after which defaming her when she went public together with her declare. Trump has denied wrongdoing and accused her of creating it as much as enhance gross sales of her ebook.
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